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I just read that the 2025 BIAB Installed size is 750 GB (FLAC files) which is off since 2024 was 2.0 TB of AIFF files. Is there a reason for this? I buy the audiophile edition because of the higher quality sounds.

A friend sent me this lecture thinking I might enjoy it, he was right. Music enthusiasts and especially those that appreciate Pink Floyd may also find this lecture educational and enlightening. Milton Mermikides of Gresham College (established 1597) does a great technical and artful examination of The Dark Side of the Moon. He gets into vocal mimicry, musical expectancy, quietly desperate chords, jazz influences, the rise of electronic music, madness and much more. Life would be so bland if it weren't for brilliant musicians and for intellectuals like Mermikides that can connect dots that many of us would otherwise never connect. Illuminating

XPro Styles PAKs and Xtra Styles PAK sets are on sale until July 31, 2025! Ready to take your Band-in-a-Box® 2025 experience to the next level? Now’s the perfect time! Expand your style library with XPro and Xtra Styles PAKs—packed with a wide variety of genres to inspire your next musical creation. Each RealStyle is professionally mixed and arranged to enhance your songs and save you time! Get the XPro Styles PAKs 1 - 8 for only $29 ea (Reg. $49 ea), or get them all in the XPro Styles PAK Bundle for only $149 (reg. $299)! Listen to demos & Order now! Note: XPro Styles PAKs require Band-in-a-Box® 2025 or higher and are compatible with ANY package, including the Pro, MegaPAK, UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, and Audiophile Edition. Get Xtra Styles PAKs 1 - 19 are on special for only $29 each (reg $49), or get all 19 PAKs for $199 (reg $399)! Listen to demos & Order now! Note: The Xtra Styles require the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition of Band-in-a-Box®. (Xtra Styles PAK 19 requires the 2025 or higher UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition. They will not work with the Pro or MegaPAK version because they need the RealTracks from the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition. Don’t miss this chance to supercharge your Band-in-a-Box setup—at a great price!

A free, multitrack spectrum analyzer that's excellent for visualizing and comparing the various tracks in a Reaper mix. It can also be used to compare Reaper's overall mix with reference tracks. The name of this analyzer is "Saike Spectral Analyzer (beta)". Here is a video that explains how this spectral analyzer works. The software routine is obtained through ReaPack Package Manager. 1) From the Reaper home page (https://www.reaper.fm/), download and install ReaPack. It is found under "Resources". 2) In Reaper, under the "Extensions" menu, click on ReaPack. 3) Select "Browse packages..." 4) In the Search field, enter "saike" (no inverted commas). 4) Select "Saike Spectral Analyzer (beta)"

New, Fun Band-in-a-Box Enhancements from Norton Music If you liked the Ultimate Pop Rock Fake e-Disk You'll Love this new Ultimate Rock Pop Fake e-Disk * One of our most loved Band-in-a-Box collection since the 1990s has been Norton Music's companion e-disk to Hal Leonard's Ultimate Pop Rock Fake Book. The folks at Hal Leonard published a companion book with a similar name, the Ultimate Rock Pop Fake Book. Reversing the Rock and Pop words so they don't supersede the original. It's a Who's Who of Rock/Pop music. From Elvis Presley, to The Beatles, to Madonna, to Prince, to Taylor Swift, the most important stars of the Rock and Pop music are there. We've been working hard to interpret the almost 550 songs ala Band-in-a-Box and we're proud of our work. All this for less than 8¢ per song Just look at the complete song list and partial artist list here https://www.nortonmusic.com/fake52.html The best of both worlds: As usual, we've assigned a MIDI style and the BiaB robot should suggest a Real-Tracks style for each song. Assigning MIDI is the only way to give you both choices. If you don't have the style assigned, no problem, just substitute one if the styles from your Band-in-a-Box collection. Or be adventurous, and reinterpret the song with a different style of music. Check out the free samples in the song list. It's a Pop/Rock gig in a box! If you purchase the optional Fake Book, you can load the song, open the book, and play and/or sing along. It's your Rock/Pop gig in a box. And since they are in Band-in-a-Box .sgu format, you can rearrange them, change the key, pick a new style, and customize them to fit your musical personality. Windows or Mac - it works on both. Norton Music has been making Band-in-a-Box improvement products since the beginning, when Band-in-a-Box was written in pre-Windows DOS, Mac was in OS-6 and there was even an edition for the Atari computer. Our products have been recommended by the good folks at PG music, and rather than try to replace anything PG does, we add value to your favorite auto-accomplishment program, Band-in-a-Box. If you have Band-in-a-Box, you need this e-disk. --- Instant E-Delivery with VISA, Master Card OR PayPal --- * No they're not physical disks anymore, those days are long gone. They are now instant gratification downloads. I cut the price of my disks up to $5 each and no longer have to charge shipping and handling. And you not only save money, but get your software right away in an environmentally friendly way.

This blew my mind. Absolutely beautiful realtracks and demo, 'Doomed'. That singing cello! Well done PG Music!

menu potentially useful, the only problem is that every time you make a selection, the window disappear. Make the thing stay in there, so that we can use it at all.

the 'simple arrangement' feature is still weak: the programs still plays major seconds and ninths even when 'simple arrangement' is on. PG music seems to believe that 'simple' means no sevenths, when it should mean: play the damn chord I specify, no more and no less. Can we please have an option to - only play minor or major triads - ? A basic rule of arranging is: don't do anything that isn't necessary. If the backing plays all that other mumbo-jumbo, it creates two serious problems: 1. IF the notes were wanted in the melody or the soloists, now there's nothing for them to do, because the backing is already doing it. Say I want a 9-8 appoggiatura: some yahoo is already playing it in the backing, so mine will sound weak. I presume people know here that an appoggiatura is NOT a grace note, it is a dissonance taken by leap that lasts AS LONG or LONGER than the note of resolution, otherwise it IS a grace note. A grace note is a very simple, short dissonance that is heard very briefly. An example of true 9-8 appoggiaturas in pop music are the starting notes of every motif in the sax theme of the George Michael's 'Careless Whisper'. If the backing had already these notes, it would detract from the sax theme A LOT. In the end, in homophonic music, which forms the 98 per cent of popular music, is just a 'motor' that falls in the background, because the mind relegates in the background any parts that repeat in a more or less predictable way. It's the soloist , the vocals etc that the listener focuses on, because more change and freedom is expected in these parts. 2. and if the notes were NOT wanted, now you are stuck with them, and make the realtrack useless. Maybe that's easier for PG Music to understand what is needed here. Years ago I complained about the same thing, hopefully it'll happen before I get too old. Even better, it would be great to be able to edit the realtrack notes and move them up or down, if only by one or half step, just to reach a chord note and get rid of these unwanted ones. Thanks !

Fra denne side er der adgang til alle Band-in-a-Box 2025 til Mac videoer. Klik HER Venlig hilsen Lindbjerg

Splitterfunktionen, som blev introduceret i Biab 2025 til Windows, findes nu også i Mac versionen. Jeg har afprøver de, og det virker rigtig godt. Prøv at høre mit remix af den gamle Elvis klassiker "All shook up" Her . Backingen har jeg selv indspillet i Cubase, så der er faktisk ingen Biab spor i sangen. Venlig hilsen Lindbjerg

Band-in-a-Box 2025 til Mac understøtter nu VST3 Pluginns. Det var også på tide! Alle andre programmer har benyttet VST3 i længere tid. Se videoen her: HER Venlig hilsen Lindbjerg

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Hello forum members, As many of you know, I’ve been working on an AI-powered song and lyric generator called LyricLab for the past couple of years. I could use your help as I have just relaunched on Product Hunt. If you’ve found LyricLab useful or just want to support the project, I’d be so grateful if you could upvote, comment, review (or all three 😜) on Product Hunt. You can find the LyricLab Product Hunt page here: https://www.producthunt.com/products/lyriclab-ai-songs-lyrics-slideshows Note: You’ll need to create a Product Hunt profile, but it’s quick and easy—just sign up with your email, Google, Facebook, etc. As a thank you, I’ll send you 10 free AI song generations (100 credits) on LyricLab. If you’re not on LyricLab yet, you can sign up for a free Lite account here: https://www.lyriclab.net Take a quick screenshot of your Product Hunt activity and send it to me, along with the email address you used on LyricLab and I’ll credit your LyricLab account with your free songs. Thanks so much for your support—it means a lot!

Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac® now includes support for VST3 plugins, alongside VST and AU. Use them with MIDI or audio tracks for even more creative possibilities in your music production. Tobin guides you through the process in this easy-to-follow demonstration! Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Macs®: VST3 Plugin Support youtu.be/Y36uPG_IXc8 Using a VST plugin can enhance your music production experience by providing access to a wide range of virtual instruments, effects, and tools. Here are a few reasons why you may want to use VST plugins: - More Instrument Sounds: There are a wide variety of virtual instruments, including realistic sounding instruments to synths and drum machines. - Professional Effects: Add effects like reverb, delay, and EQ to refine your mix and add a professional touch to your tracks. - Customization: Plugins often come with presets that can be tweaked to fit your specific needs, giving you full creative control. What's your favorite plugin?

Så er Band-in-a-Box 2025 til Mac klar! Nærmere introduktion følger Vh Lindbjerg

With the launch of Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®, we're adding new videos to our YouTube Channel. We are also sharing them here to make it easy for you to find all our Band-in-a-Box® 2025 videos in one convenient place! Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac® Videos: Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®: Everything You Need to Know in Under 8 Minutes! youtu.be/6aar0fOeS_M Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®: Boot Camp Video - Using The BB Stem Splitter (Crash Course) youtu.be/7jP8DgZZVbU Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®: Boot Camp Video - The AI Lyrics Generator youtu.be/T6sDr4FRf-Q Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®: 202 New RealTracks youtu.be/LldV6szv6tU Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®: 2025 49-PAK! youtu.be/7HD2zQ6XZoU Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®: RealCombos 2025 Booster PAK! (Included in the 2025 Free Bonus PAK youtu.be/sHpjKYNlQjk XPro Styles PAK 8 Overview & Styles Demos youtu.be/8vNO1y2Fb7Q Xtra Styles PAK 19 Overview & Styles Demos youtu.be/pvwazj2yvYw Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®: Everything You Need to Know in Under 8 Minutes! Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®: Boot Camp - Using the BB Stem Splitter (Crash Course) Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for mac®: Boot Camp - The AI Lyrics Generator Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®: 202 New RealTracks Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®: 2025 49-PAK Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®: RealCombos 2025 Booster PAK! (Included in the 2025 Free Bonus PAK) XPro Styles PAK 8 Overview & Styles Demos Xtra Styles PAK 19 Overview & Styles Demos Stay tuned for more!

Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac® is here with many major features and an amazing collection of new content! Special Offers and Pricing Available until July 31, 2025!! We’re excited to introduce an amazing new AI-powered feature - The BB Stem Splitter! This amazing tool separates an audio file containing multiple instruments into individual tracks - bass, drums, guitar/piano, vocals, and residual sounds. These tracks are then added separately to your song, allowing you to generate Band-in-a-Box tracks to play along with. Using advanced AI and machine learning techniques, this process, also known as “audio source separation,” offers greater flexibility and creative control in music production. For example, you can import vocals from your favorite singer and rearrange the backing tracks in Band-in-a-Box to create a unique, personalized mix. VST3 Plugin Support: Band-in-a-Box® now supports VST3 plugins, allowing you to use them alongside VST and AU for MIDI or audio tracks. AI Lyrics Generator: Band-in-a-Box® has many more AI features, including creative songwriting functions that suggest or generate themes, styles, titles, and even entire song ideas. It also offers customized AI lyrics generation, allowing you to create lyrics from scratch, generate the next line, or experiment with rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, related words, or alliterations. You can enhance your existing lyrics by adding vivid imagery, emotion, richer vocabulary, or more natural phrasing. The AI Lyrics Generator consolidates all these features, allowing you to easily tailor your lyrics to fit your song. With six lyric modes - Word Suggestions, Inspiration, Songwriting, Improvements, Full Song, and Custom - you can refine your lyrics in numerous ways. (Note: An internet connection is required to use these features.) MIDI Patch Picker: There’s a new one-stop MIDI Patch Picker with over 1,100 MIDI patches to choose from, all neatly categorized by GM numbers. MultiPicker Library The MultiPicker Library is enhanced with new tabs for the SongPicker, MIDI Patch Picker, Chord Builder, AI Lyrics Generator, and Song Titles Browser, and all tabs are logically organized. There is an option to open the MultiPicker Library instead of modal dialogs. (Note: Holding the shift key while selecting the menu item to access the feature always opens the MultiPicker Library, and holding the control key always opens the modal dialog.) When opened, the window will automatically return to the last tab you were viewing Enhanced Audiophile Edition The Audiophile Edition is enhanced with FLAC files, which are 60% smaller than AIFF files while maintaining identical audio quality, and now ships on a fast 1TB SSD. And many more... Along with Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®, we've released the following: We have a 2025 49-PAK with 20 BONUS RealTracks in addition to the 202 new RealTracks, so in total an amazing 222 new RealTracks and RealDrums are available! In addition, there are over 100 new RealStyles that use the new RealTracks & RealDrums. There are 99 new “Playable RealTracks & RealDrums” Hi-Q sounds, which match many of our RealTracks, so you can easily switch from RealTracks and RealDrums parts to MIDI notes while maintaining the instrument sound! Every sound also has an accompanying audio demo. The 2025 49-PAK also includes 2 new Artist Performance Sets that contains 50 original songs with synth-vocal performances! There are Instrumental Studies Sets that include 2-handed "Rhythm Changes" piano soloing, and a new set of exciting '80s hard rock soloing guitar. There are also two new RealDrums Stems Sets, which allow you to access the individual wave files from each different mic used to record many of our RealDrums! There are two new MIDI SuperTracks Sets, including styles designed to work with the amazing SynthMaster plugin! We're having a SALE on most Band-in-a-Box® 2025 upgrades until July 31, 2025 - save up to 50%! We've packed our Free Bonus PAK & 49-PAK with some incredible Add-ons! The Free Bonus PAK is automatically included with most Band-in-a-Box® for Mac 2025 packages, but for more even more Add-ons (including 20 Unreleased RealTracks/RealDrums!) upgrade it to the 2025 49-PAK for only $49. Check out our Bonus PAKs page for more information and demos. The Band-in-a-Box® packages page list all the purchase options available, but here's a summary for you: Band-in-a-Box® Pro First-time purchase: $129 Upgrade from Version 2024: $59 (reg: $69) Upgrade from Version 2023 or earlier or crossgrade: $69(reg: $79) **Special 2025 Program Only Update from 2024: $49 Includes program updates only. No add-ons or Bonus PAKs included. **Only available for a limited time!** **Requires Version 2024. Includes version 2025 program updates only. (No other Add-ons or Bonus PAKs.) Band-in-a-Box® MegaPAK First-time purchase: $269 Upgrade from Version 2024: $89 (reg: $149) Upgrade from Version 2023 or earlier or crossgrade: $99 (reg: $159) Band-in-a-Box® UltraPAK First-time purchase: $469 Upgrade from Version 2024: $149 (reg: $279) Upgrade from Version 2023 or earlier or crossgrade: $169 (reg: $299) Band-in-a-Box® UltraPAK+ First-time purchase: $569 Upgrade from Version 2024: $179 (reg: $379) Upgrade from Version 2023 or earlier or crossgrade: $199 (reg: $399) Note: The difference between the UltraPAK and the UltraPAK+ is that the Songs & Lessons PAK is included in the UltraPAK+ package. Band-in-a-Box® Audiophile Edition (Download Version) The Audiophile Edition is enhanced with FLAC files, which are 60% smaller than WAV files while maintaining identical audio quality. This now ships on a fast 1TB SSD. First-time purchase: $619 Upgrade from Version 2024: $429 Upgrade from Version 2023 or earlier or crossgrade: $449 Upgrade from Version 2024 Audiophile: $169 (*Requires Audiophile Edition Version 2024.) Audiophile PlusPAK Upgrade from Version 2024 Audiophile Edition: $149 (*Requires the 2024 Audiophile Edition.) Includes Band-in-a-Box 2025 and the 202 NEW RealTracks in Sets 449-467. **Only available for a limited time!** Upgrade from any previous Audiophile (2023 or earlier): $299 (*Requires the 2024 Audiophile Edition) Band-in-a-Box® Audiophile Edition (Physical copy Version) The Audiophile Edition is enhanced with FLAC files, which are 60% smaller than WAV files while maintaining identical audio quality. This now ships on a fast 1TB SSD. First-time purchase: $669 Upgrade from Version 2024: $479 Upgrade from Version 2023 or earlier or crossgrade: $499 Upgrade from Version 2024 Audiophile: $199 (*Requires Audiophile Edition Version 2024.) **Only available for a limited time!** Upgrade from any previous Audiophile (2023 or earlier): $349 (*Requires any previous Audiophile Edition Version 2023 or earlier.) Band-in-a-Box® PlusPAK Upgrades Includes Band-in-a-Box 2025 and the 202 NEW RealTracks in Sets 449-467. (*Requires the 2024 Audiophile Edition.) (The PlusPAK is designed to upgrade 2024 UltraPAK & UltraPAK+ users who are downloading their upgrade or do not want to purchase a new hard drive.) PlusPAK Upgrade from Version 2024: $99 (reg: $129) Audiophile PlusPAK Upgrade from Version 2024 Audiophile Edition (Download Only): $149 (*Requires the 2024 Audiophile Edition.) **Only available for a limited time!** If you need any help deciding which package is the best option for you, just let us know. We are here to help!

About the Style Picker I'd like the developers to work on further developing the Style Picker to make our lives easier. For example, improving the Style Picker's user experience by specifying and programming keywords in the database so that, for example, in the filter text field, from a drop-down list, we can use predefined expressions that the developers/musicians and creators of PG Music would have thought of including in the Style Picker to allow us to more quickly obtain what we often look for. Example: sidestick on beats 2 and 4 to find out which styles allow this groove pattern. or, ending with cymbals and how many other suggestions for fills and variations concerning the drum. Where are the styles that allow the sidestick to be used on the 2nd and 4th beats? For example, from the chord chart (when I right-click on a), I have sidesticks for several styles, but ALWAYS on each beat. I never see a sidestick on beats 2 and 4. Currently, I'm looking for a Rock Ballad style that offers sidestick on beats 2 and 4. If you've already seen this, let me know. Thanks!

I have a long setlist and always play them with Track Type set to Guitar so I can see the notes and the tabs. However, every time I open a song it defaults to Single Channel so I have to go in and reset it. Is there a way of changing the default Track Type to Guitar or anything else?

I’d really like some better Western swing drum, rhythm guitar, bass and rhythm piano tracks. The current ones just don’t get it, they don’t swing! Would also really love some Western swing non pedal steel guitar. Think Bob Wills’ and Leon McAullife’s band sound in the late 40’s and early 50’s. BIAB’s tracks and styles labeled “Country Swing” are not even close to the feel of real Western Swing! There are lots of us WS players that would love authentic WS sounds to practice with!! Right now I have to make do with a hodgepodge of styles that don’t feel right. Thanks for reading this! Pete

I’d really like some Western swing drum, rhythm guitar, bass and rhythm piano tracks. The current ones just don’t get it. Would also really love some Western swing non pedal steel guitar. Has anyone made User tracks of these?

I'm on BIAB 2021 (515) Mac (OS12.7.6) and only just seen that I can export/save as video, but it always comes out as a blank video if notation is selected. I only get something if it's in Chord Sheet mode, but I want the notation play along. Can't update BIAB or Mac any further on my 2015 Macbook Pro. (I'm planning to upgrade to 2025 once it's out though) Any ideas?

Lately I've been attempting to find time to break out of my usual music routine and listen to newer/more obscure music and stumbled upon this piece based on a poem. The Pulley When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, "Let us," said he, "pour on him all we can. Let the world's riches, which disperséd lie, Contract into a span." So strength first made a way; Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honor, pleasure. When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that, alone of all his treasure, Rest in the bottom lay. "For if I should," said he, "Bestow this jewel also on my creature, He would adore my gifts instead of me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature; So both should losers be. "Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlessness. Let him be rich and weary, that at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast." --George Herbert